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at least 16 people have died after an air india express flight — carrying 191 people — crash landed and broke in two at an airport in kerala. many of the injured have been taken to hospitals. the lebanese shia movement, hezbollah, has denied any link to tuesday's deadly blast at the beirut port. hassan nasrallah said that those who linked the organisation to the explosion were pushing for civil war. a record numbers of migrants have been stopped in a single day in the english channel, trying to reach britain. four thousand people including pregnant women and children, are known to have attempted the journey this year. union leaders are threatening industrial action, after accusing british airways of naked greed, in forcing some cabin crew out of theirjobs. the airline says the changes are needed for its survival following the coronavirus pandemic.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn stevens, deputy political editor at the daily mail and eve pollard former fleet street editor. let's ta ke let's take a look at those front pages. the times reports uk ministers are studying australian plans for intercepting migrant boats, following a record number of crossings in the english channel. uk tourists have been ‘left in the dark‘ on holiday quarantine restrictions — that's according to the telegraph, which says some people have cancelled trips over fears that france might be placed on the uk government's red list. the international edition of the new york times claims the united states is the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe and sustained coronavirus outbreak for more than four months. the guardian has learned nearly 40% of a—level grades submitted by teachers will be downgraded when exam results are published in england next week,
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amid criticism of this year's results due to the coronavirus pandemic. the paper also features an image of an extremely busy bournemouth beach, as people in the uk enjoyed the hottest august day since 2003. and the mirror reports the scorching heatwave led to travel chaos, with social distancing measures almost impossible to adhere to due to rammed beaches. so let's begin. welcome back to you both. and the daily telegraph's front page, headline uk tourists left in the dark by holiday quarantine. do you think that uk tourists are left in the dark, or is itjust a matter of fa ct the dark, or is itjust a matter of fact that the government can't make decisions until they have the information to handle it?|j decisions until they have the information to handle it? i think the government are stuck between a rock and a hard place, but also of course am aware that people make plans to go on holiday with no idea
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and no time to have 1a days quarantine at the end of it because they have to go back to theirjobs. it's a nightmare but i see the government are watching as various european countries, for example, spain and other places, once the tourists decide to arrive the coronavirus cases go up tourists decide to arrive the coronavirus cases go up and the infection goes up. they are so determined that we won't have that that they are saying if you come back from places which have higher infection you will have to go into quarantine. tory mp is a very angry, they say it's an opaque system, people don't know, and people are already in france, and it will have to cope with 1a days of quarantine. it has not yet been decided if france is on that list but their cases do seem to be going up as the country fills with tourists. it was a lwa ys country fills with tourists. it was always going to be difficult for
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people once you head abroad this summer people once you head abroad this summer with so much uncertainty and fa cts summer with so much uncertainty and facts changing all the time in different countries, but do you think the government could be handling this better? it was very bad at explaining what it was doing, and quite chaotic on the debt launch, the transport secretary out oi'i launch, the transport secretary out on the radio in the morning saying one thing and then by the time details were published in the afternoon it was slightly different. however, as you say, the government is not fully in control of everything going on here. and one of the countries where talking about is france. at the moment if you go to france. at the moment if you go to france and come back you don't have to quarantine for 14 days, with the numberof to quarantine for 14 days, with the number of coronavirus cases is increasing there, so the government is thinking about, do we need to add that went to the quarantine list or not. it's not quite clear what they are meant to do. they are waiting to see what happens, but if you are waiting to go on holiday and you just don't know. if you go on
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holiday tomorrow, however you get there, by the time you come back in two weeks' time you just don't know. aml two weeks' time you just don't know. am i going to after quarantine or not? does not seem to have an easy way around it. one of the ideas suggested by the tory mps is the contest people on arrival so that people don't have to quarantine and canjust people don't have to quarantine and can just take a coronavirus test. but there are problems with that. because people may not have developed symptoms and sojust because you come back and have a test on arrival does not mean necessarily that you are clear of coronavirus. in four weeks left of the summer holidays until kids are back, hopefully in school and i think so many people's plants are up in the air. let's have another look at the story on the daily telegraph. lockdown blamed for 60,000 deaths in addition to virus victims. during like the overall total of the numbers of people who were not seeking medical attention when they probably needed to out of fear that
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they could contract something if they could contract something if they went to hospital or uncertainty as to whether they could get the help that they needed. this figure here now puts it into a starc numbers. this is the group of doctors advising the government all through this pandemic. and these are the figures that they released at the figures that they released at the end of last month. he said lockdown killed two people for every three of coronavirus. two people died or will die of something else because they were frightened to go to hospital, because they were frightened to go to a&e because they we re frightened to go to a&e because they were frightened of getting a virus, and also people thought they got so much on their hands, i can't bother them with my worries about this, that and the other. and people had mild heart attacks, strokes, people did not fulfil the treatment they we re did not fulfil the treatment they were having or did not go back to the doctor when they said let's go back and have another look at those x—rays. the estimated that there are
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16,000 people who have died through mr medical care. and the sage figures looks that 50 years ahead and five years ahead, and it makes quite scary reading. what's important from this as well is the numbers and lessons that the government can now learn from this. pa rt of government can now learn from this. part of the problem here has been the success of the government messaging at the start of the crisis. stay at home, protects the nhs and save lives. people were very careful whether they went to hospital or not. did not want to put the nhs in danger, and i think people are expecting the situation is going to be like italy were the hospitals were under a lot of pressure, not enough beds for people and people out in the corridor is. we saw the government take action and pulling those nightingale hospital is commanded the end capacity was not one of the big
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problems and those hospitals late most of the time. i think one of the lessons we are learning if we do get another wave is making sure people do keep coming to hospital, a lot of those coronavirus patients and up that nightingale hospital is, so other departments are free to treat people that have got other ailments. let's move onto the ft. they say at restau ra nts let's move onto the ft. they say at restaurants are facing a crisis to bite the big boost the discount dining schema. eat out to help out what started this week which a lot of people heading out to restaurants of people heading out to restaurants of the few days where it counts. but is it going to be enough for many of them? you is it going to be enough for many of them ? you have is it going to be enough for many of them? you have been out dining in your local favourite, haven't you eve ? your local favourite, haven't you eve? very interesting this idea, a brilliant idea and the restaurant tours are very grateful for the idea, but they say it's not been a game changer. lots of people who have perhaps gone out on a friday night or saturday nights, which we all know are the busy nights have
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moved that to a monday, tuesday or wednesday when you get your discount. which is pretty clever going for them, but of course does not necessarily help the restaurant tours. and of course many people are still nervous about going out. you just talk to people who have got underlying causes or think they have, or are of a certain age, or just wide risk. and i think perhaps having a three months where we did not go to a restaurant at all, going out once every month seems to be fine at the moment. we just adapting toa fine at the moment. we just adapting to a different way of life, but the scary is that one restaurant says in september of the rents will become due, and not only that but having to keep staff on and the kitchen filled, and they said they could be an instant closure of a massive chunk of the hospitality business in this country if they don't get more
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help. and that's going to be quite difficult for a government already looking at startling figures about unemployment, and further payments and the rest of it. is the onus on the government to stop up more cash for the restaurant industry? lot of money going income you got the vat cut one of the big problems is in a lot of areas were office workers have been they have been complete ghost towns. i work in westminster at whatever i've been in there's been no one around at all, it's a the restaurants in those areas you can offer whatever discount you want to come any sort of scheme or voucher, but there's literally no one around to take at that offer and you are really going to struggle, you are really going to struggle, you are really going to struggle, you are going to see restaurants and cafes and shops in places like central london struggling over the next few months. difficult for the government to know what to do because in the one hand they want to encourage people to go back to the office, but also a slight reluctance that if you sent everyone back to
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work you might start seeing the virus come back again. people were saying they are very cautious, do you think the scheme will help people recover that confidence and feel more secure and going to those restau ra nts feel more secure and going to those restaurants once they have done it on the odd occasion . london is a ghost town, but give that go to cornwall and devon, one of these wonderful places, which is great for the tourist industry, and they will go to a restaurant or bar, or somewhere down there. at those places are probably chockablock and deter people way. and is people in cornwall state there's only one hospital in cornwall, so they're very worried about the virus spreading want the tourists. at it's going to be very hard, and i don't know how not only restaurants but corner shops, sandwich shops and all of those places that dealt with people having lunch and meals on the 90, people having lunch and meals on the go, how will they survive and as
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people go to back to work? very difficult head for many. the times front page sheer pushback on migrants of this is about a new plan which is based on australian style system to intercept the boats in the channel after a record number of migrants came to the uk this week. john what you make of this? this is the numberof john what you make of this? this is the number of people across the channel, 235 on thursday, that's the biggest number in a single day that we have ever seen. biggest number in a single day that we have ever seen. when you look at the numbers so far this year we had 3800 people crossing and that's compared to 1800 and the whole of la st compared to 1800 and the whole of last year. the home secretary priti patel flooding ideas that she is suggesting the navy could get involved and now suggesting that week close properly and once to look into our waters we push them back to france. although as she admits she was sending tweets today and that
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the numbers are appalling. suggesting ideas that even she admitted our legal publications with this. so they might to the good good idea but when you come to do it they quite difficult to pull off. it's very few options for the government, but actually statistically the numbers i come to this country are far lower than for many countries like france, for example. yes but the thing about france is because france is certainly the places around calais are very inhospitable, that makes people either avoid them or makes them go to other places in france that might not be as inhospitable, or makes them go through france to another country. britain being the first but other countries like belgium for example have a great many migrants in there. soido have a great many migrants in there. so i do think the host country has
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the thing, if the french were half as generous as we are to migrants, perhaps more of them would stay there. it's a terrific problem, and it needs a worldwide situation to sort it out. i can see that people are getting very upset and coming here, and legally i don't know whether we can do the australian system, not sure with the australian system, not sure with the australian system is but it's how they stopped boats from indonesia coming from australia, and i think they park them on an island somewhere. we don't have that situation, and i'm not sure if that's what britain wa nts to not sure if that's what britain wants to do. britain that has been so brilliant to my grandparents and let them in. it would be very tough to find a legal way around this, and of course i think in the next couple of course i think in the next couple of weeks if the weather stays like it is 20 be many more boats, and many more traffickers making a fortune out of those desperate
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people. 0k. let's have a look at the guardian and these predictions saying for a levels to be lowered, under the thousands of students relying or what the teacher say and i could go out the window for many of them. this is a level results coming out in england looking for the predictive grades and they have been the teacher assessments being given. they've been adjusting them around the country, and i think the guarding is saying is going to be 300,000 grades march down when the results come out. thisjust seems really difficult for people who have done them this year. utterly miserable year and done them this year. utterly miserable yearand a done them this year. utterly miserable year and a lot of them may have been hoping that they may not have been hoping that they may not have started off so well, but thought they were going to really knuckle down and make up for it at the end. then he did not get the chance to do that. the impact of this, if they don't have the grace they need to have been marched down,
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might not be able to go to university. and if they do get to go there going to have a miserable experience as well. not going to be a university like many of us knew it. they pared it down, let the lectures online and not having social activities in the same way. it's a very important part about university and growing up. how do the exam boards police this without actual exam papers, it's really difficult because there will always bea difficult because there will always be a certain proportion of people saying that's just not right. be a certain proportion of people saying that'sjust not right. it's people who are not quite a students or be students, and the teachers may have thought, and this does happen can be washed with their own children, suddenly reaching 16 or 17 and realise how important these exams are. they want to go to the same university as their friends are going to, and suddenly to be marched
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down because perhaps he did not do so well in your a—levels last year, or to gcse, going to affect a six—year—olds as well as the 18—year—olds, it's heartbreaking. and i wonder how many people always feel i was done out of my rightful place, and very hard to complain, very ha rd to place, and very hard to complain, very hard to get a reassessment it almost impossible in this country. i think they have had a very sad summer of being a teenager, and this pandemic is bad news anyway. but this is the crushing blow. we will see when those results come out in a few weeks' time. last front page year, the glorious weather here and inevitably like to like to head to the beach, brighton and bournemouth crowded as ever but the big question is it safe? are you heading to a beach this weekend? i'm heading to
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cornwall for a few days next week, but a tricky thing is at a beach when you set up first thing you don't know how busy it's going to be in particular places to me like you to the beach and not be that busy but ina to the beach and not be that busy but in a few hours it might be getting very busy. if you are a family you've not been able to take a foreign holiday, taking a holiday in this country. it entered upon the beach and find it really busy it's going to end up loads of disappointed children. it's what the right thing are meant to do this year if you want to have a holiday. we all stuck apart from the field of brampton to form an direct foreign climates. do you think that people are heading to the wrong beaches and crowding to the obvious ones? at the people do crowd the obvious ones and we always have to remember there is stuff. if you have young children you have to take a buggy and so that
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they can have a sleep in the middle of the day. if you worry about sunstroke and getting too hot you ta ke sunstroke and getting too hot you take umbrellas. then probably the picnic and you have been clever and packs the picnic and said we don't have to leave the beach. they've got all this stuff you have to lug from your car, there's wonderful beaches as we all know around this country, but they are miles away from where you can stick your car. it's fine if you can stick your car. it's fine if you can stick your car. it's fine if you can travel light but if there's afamily of you can travel light but if there's a family of three or four it's quite difficult to do that. would you think about heading to cornwall at some and from there and you've seen the pictures of people thronging the streets of st ives, does it put you off from going back home? not really. i going to see my family, and from penzance. i make straight but book a train ticket so i wasn't
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to rush on a train if there is not enough space or not. it is hard, just don't know what the right thing for people to do is. we wish you a wonderful trip, thank you for taking her through the papers. it is hot out there. but nice and cool in the air conditioning in here. that's it for the papers tonight, thank you very much for watching and being with us. goodbye. let's take a look at today's sports. manchester city enjoyed their return of football's champions league tonight, beating real madrid 2—1 at the etihad stadium, going through to the quarter finals, 4—2 on aggregate. here's andy swiss. 163 days after their first leg, at last, manchester city and real madrid with unfinished business. city, in case you'd forgotten, had a 2—1 advantage, and it was soon even more.
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raheem sterling could barely believe his luck. a terrible blunder from raphael varane, but a perfect start for the hosts. with no gareth bale, real looked lacklustre, until this. karim benzema with a goal — game on. if real scored again it was extra time, but after the break — just watch this. another gaffe by varane, a nimble finish by gabrieljesus, and city were on the brink. another defensive howler, but the hosts didn't mind. real now had to score twice, but instead it was still city that threatened. david silva just over as they ultimately eased to victory. next up a quarterfinal with lyon and after this they'll feel anything is possible. andy swiss, bbc news. and now, with a round—up of the rest of the days sport, here'sjohn watson. yes, thanks very much. the late wickets from england's bowlers have kept alive
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their victory hopes following day three of the first test against pakistan at old trafford after being bowled out with a big first innings deficit. the day started with england batting, and it wasn't long before top scorer 0llie pope departed for 62. joss buttler soon followed to leave the england order somewhat exposed, some big hitting was required from stuart broad, helping the home side pass 200 before eventually being bowledout for 219, 107 runs behind. quick wickets were needed, it was broad who provided the first dismissing shan masood for a duck. a late pakistan collapse of four for 27 included two wickets for ben stokes with them closing on 157—8, a lead of 244. and pope thinks they are still within a chance of victory. it will be a tough chase but i think we put ourselves in as good as a position as we could hope for. obviously, it's spinning quite a bit
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and bouncing quite a bit, but if we bat well, we've got every chance of chasing them down. meanwhile, england's defence of the women's 50 over world cup has been pushed back with the tournament postponed until 2022. it was originally set to be held in new zealand early next year. clubs in league 1 and in league 2 have voted in favour of introducing a salary cap which will come into effect immediately. for clubs in league 1, the capsule level has been set at £2.5 million. for sides in league 2, the cap is at the lower level of 1.5 million. the efl say clubs will be fined or face further sanctions if they exceed these spending limits. the pfa say the move is unlawful and unenforceable. gillingham chairman paul scally says he's disappointed by that response. what they need to take on port is if we don't have some kind of control in football, then the pfa will eventually die out because there won't be any clubs for anybody to play at. so, the bishop will go down, players will suffer because there
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won't bejobs for them, and ultimately, wages will be way down anyway. so, why the pfa would find a salary—cap a problem is beyond me because anyone with any sort of sense would look at it and say if we don't have football clubs, we haven't gotjobs for our players. scottish first minister nicola sturgeon has strongly criticised a number of aberdeen players. following two positive coronavirus tests, six other players have been made to self—isolate, causing tomorrow's game at stjohnstone's to be postponed. all eight were in an aberdeen bar link to the city's covid—19 spike. last saturday night. the club are investigating. sturgeon has been talking about the issue today. we are expecting members of the public to behave in a highly precautionary manner right now. and when a football club and up with players infected with covid, and let's remember this is not through badly but through clear breaches of the rules, we cannot take even a small risk
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that they then spread the infection to parts of the country. the scottish government will also be contacting all club captains and managers to the size the importance of complying with the guidance. but let me take the opportunity to emphasise the important of that directly now. football has been given the go—ahead on the strict condition that clubs and players abide by the guidance that has been agreed. if they don't do that, they put at risk the return of the professional game. it's been a busy day on and off the track at silverstone ahead of this weekend's formula 1 70th anniversary grand prix. lewis hamilton and valtteri bottas took it in turns to top time sheets, but the bigger news involves your mercedes team who say they have concerns over legal commercial and sporting issues and the contract f1 want them to sign to take part next season. they've got until wednesday to agree a deal. second practice runs came to a premature end when sebastian vettel‘s ferarri suffered engine failure. it was also at tough day for racing point after sergio perez tested
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positive once again for coronavirus and a refined and docked points for copying parts on their car from mercedes. and the latest from the second round of the us pga championship golf and the world snooker championship in sheffield, you can head over to the bbc sport website tonight. for now though, that is all from the bbc sport centre. hello there. for the second friday in a row, some of us have experienced some extreme heat drifting up from the near continent. in fact, the first friday of august saw temperatures peaking at 36.4 degrees in central london, and the heat was pretty widespread across the midlands, central and southern england. widely seeing those temperatures in excess of 30 degrees. that said, not for all. in parts of northwest wales and the outer hebrides we saw temperatures only at around 16 or 17 degrees, and here there were some shower he outbreaks of rain.
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so over the next few hours those temperatures will fall into single figures, by contrast in the southeast is going to be a very uncomfortable night for getting a good nights sleep. we wake up on saturday morning, perhaps low to mid 20s. so that means plenty of sunshine around, i'll be it's hazy for the weekend. we keep the heat in the southeast for some very warm nights to come, and fresher in the far northwest. that's because we are under this influence of high pressure, but there is a weak weather front slicing across the hive. now this is just a band of cloudy, really. maybe just of the odd spot of light drizzle, but it's the dividing line between the fresher air up into the northwest, and circulating around that high is a north easterly breeze that will just make it feel a little bit more comfortable, perhaps, along those exposed east coasts. at the same time, after that warm and sultry start, the temperatures in the south are set to climb once again. so widely we are going to see mid to high 20s, possibly into the mid—30s once again. further north and west, that's where temperatures should be, really, for the time of year. 17 to 22 degrees.
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that weather front could spark a few showers through the night, but generally speaking it will be a quiet night, and a quiet start to sunday morning once again. again it's going to be another uncomfortable night down into the south with low 20s to greet us first thing on sunday morning. we could see a few isolated showers here and there across eastern england on sunday, but generally this weekend it's with a dry story with some hazy sunshine coming through. again, that north easterly breeze just peppering the feel of the temperatures, really, across the east coast. highest values on sunday afternoon are 32 degrees. now that heat is set to stay with us, and it could, as we go into next week, trigger off the risk of some sharp and sundry downpours. that's it, have a great weekend.
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this is bbc news. i'm samantha simmonds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. an air india plane with around 200 people on board skids off the runway at an airport in kerala — 17 people die and dozens more are injured. searching for survivors in the wreckage of the beirut explosion, many are still missing, with hundreds of thousands made homeless. there's a massive clear—up going on. they've come from all over the country. the devastation here is enormous. where are you from? from iraq, we are iraqis, from iraq! iraq? record numbers of migrants cross the english channel — with pressure on local councils rising. plus, strike action could be on the cards over british airways' plans to cut
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